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    Trouble updating AMD drivers

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Cerberus, Jun 1, 2014.

  1. Cerberus

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    Hello everybody,

    For the last couple of days I've been trying to update my catalyst drivers from 13.4 to 14.4 and 14.6 beta but for some reason it's just not working. I always end up with no display driver and I'm greeted on startup with a notification that there are no display drivers installed on my R3.
    I tried updating every way I know of: installing on top of the Dell drivers, deleting everything with DDU then installing the new drivers, installing manually from the device manager, and I even did a fresh install of windows 7 but it was still in vain.

    I need the new drivers to play Wolfenstein because on 13.4 the game simply freezes after choosing the difficulty level in the menu. I've been told that this problem gets fixed in version 14.4 and that 14.6 beta improves frame rates.

    If anybody has any idea what the problem might be or if I'm missing something please pitch in because at this stage I'm totally dumbfounded :confused:

    I've been updating drivers for years and I've never had such problems before. I can install Dell's 9.003 drivers, I can install 13.4 on top of them, but for some reason I can't install 14.4 or 14.6 beta.

    Cheers :)
     
    Cerberus, Jun 1, 2014
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